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1) Cheapest E911 provider is Anveo (at $0.8/month) http://www.anveo.com/service.asp (FREE plan and add E911)
1.5) If you are switching from POTS to Obi or other voip services, in many states the old phone line will remain active for calling 911. You just leave your phone connected and they disabled outgoing calls at the phone company computers.
2) if you do not want to 'dedicate' a SIP slot for E911, you can use http://www.gv911.com/ - costs $12/year
3) before you start porting your number to GV, check this first http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial.html
4) configuring 'single' stage dialing here - http://www.obitalk.com/forum/inde...pic=1103.0
5) cheapest pay-per-minute is by localphone.com at 0.5 cent/minute to US numbers
6) MagicJack/Nettalk/Ooma can be connected to the POTS line of this obi110 - look at obitalk forum for more info on this. (in theory these are next best to free GV)
7) For people want alternative to GV, here are some good quality and/or low price Voips. Some of those VoIP Services offer phone number in other countries also. Remember this is a standard SIP device so you are not tie to GV and any specific Voip.http://pbxinaflash.com/vitelity/ (Looks like Vitelity quality is gone. Read this thread in DSLReports for discussion about Vitelity quality[broadbandreports.com]http://www.callcentric.com/ <--- many SDers and people in other Voip forum recommend this. Callcentric currently offer FREE NY phone number with free unlimited incoming callshttp://www.voip.ms/ <--- many SDers and people in other Voip forum recommend this.flowroute[flowroute.com]
For free incoming call, you can also use IpKall. It works with Callcentric to provide free local number in Washington State and free incoming call.http://www.ipkall.com/
Another service offer free incoming phone numberhttp://www.sipgate.com/
Here are some of the Voip that offer very low price International Calls
Onesuite and localphone offer a lot of local access number so can use it without Voip device. Those two also offer international local access number which you can use outside US. Check their website for more info.http://www.onesuite.com (Onesuite has been around for 10+ years and consistently great quality)http://www.localphone.com (cheapest pay-per-minute is by localphone.com at 0.5 cent/minute to US numbers)

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I got this one from Amazon last week and paid the same price. I use Betamax providers for calling overseas and was using SPA3102 ATA. So, after getting the Obihai device, I tested it with my provider. Yes, the quality is on par with my Linksys one.
People who are getting this for free Google voice should be aware that the Google might impose charges in 2013.
My suspicion is that there is a reason that Obihai is clearing their prime products.

Does anybody know what will happen if the company goes down and the obitalk portal goes along with it?

I got this one from Amazon last week and paid the same price. I use Betamax providers for calling overseas and was using SPA3102 ATA. So, after getting the Obihai device, I tested it with my provider. Yes, the quality is on par with my Linksys one.
People who are getting this for free Google voice should be aware that the Google might impose charges in 2013.
My suspicion is that there is a reason that Obihai is clearing their prime products.

Does anybody know what will happen if the company goes down and the obitalk portal goes along with it?

What you say is complete bull. No one, not even google knows whether google will impose fees in 2013. The announcement has not been made. Please don't post things like this because you don't know how retail works.

Secondly, even if google did charge a fee in 2013 for voice, it would likely be around $20 per year. Google is smart enough to figure out what the line in the sand is for people to continue to use their service AND pay a fee if that should happen. It will not be some ridiculous fee whatsoever.

Thirdly, Obi works with providers other than GV. Plenty of them. So people who own obi or want to own obi can just leave GV should they not want to pay the $20ish fee if that happens.

Anyone know the cheapest way to port a landline into GV? I know I have to port from Landline to cell phone and form cell phone to GV, but what's the cheapest way? I have some old Virgin Mobile phones laying around if that helps. Otherwise I've sen people mention getting a SIP from TMobile for $5 or something?

Does anybody know what will happen if the company goes down and the obitalk portal goes along with it?

I think in this event you can just adjust the configuration to connect to Google Voice or another VOIP provider using the local firmware configuration interface. The portal is just for convenience in configuring the device.

You would also lose the free calling between ObiTalk users but I can't imagine many people are relying on this.

What you say is complete bull. No one, not even google knows whether google will impose fees in 2013. The announcement has not been made. Please don't post things like this because you don't know how retail works.

Secondly, even if google did charge a fee in 2013 for voice, it would likely be around $20 per year. Google is smart enough to figure out what the line in the sand is for people to continue to use their service AND pay a fee if that should happen. It will not be some ridiculous fee whatsoever.

Thirdly, Obi works with providers other than GV. Plenty of them. So people who own obi or want to own obi can just leave GV should they not want to pay the $20ish fee if that happens.

I like how you talk a bunch of crap on this poster for contemplating whether Obihai has some inside knowledge about Google Voice status for next year (or maybe has drawn some conclusion on their own by say, listening to earnings reports).Then, you go on to presume yourself to know everything including exactly how much Google would charge for their services..

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